Special Characters in the file name in Data Driven Subscription via File Share

Hi,
I am trying to create a Data Driven Subscription with option to delivery as windows file share in SQL server 2005. I need to save the report as a pdf with the following file name '[City] City_Name', but it errors out and it is because of the
Square Brackets. Is there any way i can save the file using the Square brackets as i mentioned above.
I am using a query to get the filename and filepath. It works fine as long as i do not have [], but i need to save the file as i mentioned along with the Square Brackets.
Please help.

Hello,
I can reproduce the issue on my test environment: When I create a Data Driven Subscription and specify the report name by get from a subscription delivery table, and the value of the "report name" column contains square brackets. The subscription failed
with following error in the error log:
ERROR: Error occurred processing subscription ab9523a6-0256-4607-b818-a7666204d018:
The file name is not valid. Avoid using special characters such as /\?*:<>|+,[]"& in the file name.
notification!WindowsService_1!1f24!05/30/2014-15:31:02:: i INFO: Notification 0cf5a356-3172-4108-9d8c-58ea81a0b80a completed. Success: False, Status: The file name is not valid. Avoid using special characters such as /\?*:<>|+,[]"& in the
file name., DeliveryExtension: Report Server FileShare, Report: Report6, Attempt 0
It seems that the behavior is by design. please avoid using square brackets as file name. Maybe you can try to use parentheses () instead.
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